IUCN Status: Endangered
EPBC Threat Rating: High/Very High
IUCN Claim: “The main threats tot his species are: Predation by feral cats (moderate to severe): feral Cats shown to be a significant predator of the closely-related Woylie in south-western Australia’”
No studies
No studies
There are no studies linking northern bettongs to cats.
Doherty, T.S., Davis, R.A., van Etten, E.J., Algar, D., Collier, N., Dickman, C.R., Edwards, G., Masters, P., Palmer, R. and Robinson, S., 2015. A continental‐scale analysis of feral cat diet in Australia. Journal of Biogeography, 42(5), pp.964-975.
Wallach et al. 2023 In Submission